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ASPN, the ActiveState Programmer Network

ASPN, the ActiveState Programmer Network, provides a wealth of resources for Perl programmers:

  • Free downloads of ActivePerl, ActiveState's Perl distribution
  • Searchable Perl documentation
  • Trial versions of Perl tools, like the Perl Dev Kit and Visual Perl
  • The Rx Cookbook, a collaborative library of regular expressions for Perl

Documentation

There is a wealth of documentation available for Perl. The first source for language documentation is the Perl distribution installed on your system. To access the documentation contained in the Perl distribution, use the following commands:

  • From a cmd or shell prompt, type perldoc perldoc. A description of the "perldoc" command will be displayed on your screen. perldoc is used to navigate the documentation contained in your Perl distribution.

Tutorials and Reference Sites

There are many Perl tutorials and beginner Perl sites on the internet, such as:


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